Package-tie



J. C. CULLIGANi PACKAGE HE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1, 1919.

1,352,357. Patented Sept 7, 1920;

UNITED STATES JOHN C. CULLIGAN, OF BOMBAY, NEW YORK.

PACKAGE-TIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 1, 1919. Serial No. 279,999.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. CULLIGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bombay, in the county of Franklin and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Package-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a package tying device, and has for its object to produce a simple means whereby a package may be tied in an easy, expeditious and efficient manner Without necessitating the knotting of the tying cord.

A further object of the invention is to produce a package tie comprising a right angular member having a tying cord centrally secured thereon and the angle ends of the said member formed with jaws, eachof which include a loop arranged over the said ends, and each of said loops having their arms crossing each other at their connection to the angle ends of the body, so that when the cord engages between the jaws and the body the same will be twisted under one of the strands and over the other strand of the jaw and thus effectively locked so that the tighter a pull exerted upon the cord the more tightly the same will be brought to engage between the jaw and body.

It is a further object of the invention to produce an extremely simple construction of tying devices which may be employed with equal efficiency upon flat or round packages without inflicting injury thereto, and which may be cheaply manufactured and marketed.

Other objects and advantages will present themselves as the nature of the invention is better understood, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view illustrating the im provement connecting a flat package.

Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the ar rangement of the device upon a round package or roll.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the improvement.

The improvement is preferably constructed from a strand of spring wire bent upon itself to present a member which is right angular in plan, which construction permits of the same being arranged upon either a fiat or a round package with equal efliciency and without danger of inflicting injury to the package.

The device thus comprises two right angular arms 4 and 5 respectively, the outer parallel strands of wire 6 ofeach of said arms, at the meeting ends thereof being rounded upon themselves to provide eyes 7 which interengage, and over one or both of these eyes is secured the inner end of the tying cord 8. The inner strands 9 of the arms 4: and 5 are parallel to the outer strands 6, and at the bight or juncture between the inner and outer parallel strands the same are looped upon themselves to provide jaws 10 that overlie the respective arms 4 and 5. The outer members or strands of each of the spring jaws 1O lap each other at an angle to their connection with the strands 6 and 9 of the respective arms 4 and 5. By this arrangement it will be noted that when the cord 8 is brought around either the flat package 11 orthe round package 12 and engaged between the aws and the angle arms 4 and 5 the said cord will be twisted between the rounded end strands of the arms 4: and 5 and the lapping angular outer ends of the jaws so that an effective biting engagement will be maintained between the device and the tying cord. The twisted cord engaged between the jaws and the arms is so gripped that a direct longitudinal pull thereon will only effect a tighter engagement between the jaws and the arms, so that it is absolutely necessary to bring the cord longitudinally of the arms out of the jaws before the same can be removed from the device.

It is believed, from the foregoing descriphaving their confronting face bent to pro- Patented Sept. *7, 1920.

vide interengaging eyes, and one of said eyes '7 designed to receive a knotted tying cord therethrough.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN C. CULLIGAN. 

